INDIVIDUALS MATTER

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

Organizations like to move people around projects every few months to help teams understand what other teams are doing, but this rarely works. Roadmaps maintain the fiction that people are interchangeable, but everyone knows this isn't true. An effective team is difficult to create due to the institutional knowledge that exists on a team, as well as the team's culture - but destroying a team is very easy. Many people in senior management roles seem to think they can redirect people as easily as in a video game, assigning workers to switch from one task to another, but often, these moves won't work out.